Song lyrics that bug you!

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I was listening to Objects in the rear view mirror by Meatloaf the other day and it contains the line:

"If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car"

That line always bugged me - for a start that's a pretty big "if" but apart from that surely in that analogy the body is the car and the soul is the driver?!

Another one is maybe a bit more Niche but Tim Minchin has a song called "Grew on me" where he likeness his love for his wife with various illnesses (it's actually much more sweet than that makes it sound!) which contains the line:

"The successful removal of you would probably kill me too"

Surely if it kills the patient you can't call it a successful removal?! What really bothers me is “the attempted removal of you” would fit the song just as well and make more sense!

Anyway I'm bored at work so thought I'd see if anyone else has any pedantic lyrical bugbears?!

i would have gone with "hot dog, jumping frog, Alburquerque" (sp?)

as for Lyrics That Really Bug me. I give you: The Lemon Song. By Led Zeppelin.
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Every bit of Heart’s ‘All I Want To Do…’ I know the point is her partner couldn’t give her a baby, but how was she so sure a random stranger would hit the target first time? What if there was a series of random strangers required? What of her safety, picking up blokes and at risk of STDs too? I know she’s fictional but still…

And Panic! At the Disco when he’s ‘pacing the pews in a church corridor’. There’s a wedding going on, why are the pews not either side of the aisle? Why are they in a corridor?!! Or do they have spares?!!

I too love this song but not that verse. Just a bit, I don’t know, cringey, in what is otherwise a characteristically well-written song. I’ve always thought “thanks for all your generous love and thanks for all the fun” is a lovely thing to say at an amicable ending.

Ed again.... Shiver
'Lipstick on my guitar. Fill up the engine we can drive real far'

Now I'm no car mechanic but...

"I sat on the roof and picked at the moss
A few of the verses got me quite cross"

It's more interesting if you change it to 'a few octopuses got me quite cross'

You're playing so cool
obeying every rule

The cool kids were always the ones breaking the rules when I was a kid! 😂

I don't think anybody has mentioned Thin Lizzy on this thread yet.

"Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak - somewhere in this town"

Ooh, I wonder where it could possibly take place - will it be at the library, the fishmonger's or the kiddies' play park...?!

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A Little Bit Of Love by either Tom Grennan or Free. What constitutes a little bit? Is it worth having?

I don't think anybody has mentioned Thin Lizzy on this thread yet.

"Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak - somewhere in this town"*

Ooh, I wonder where it could possibly take place - will it be at the library, the fishmonger's or the kiddies' play park...?!
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I remember hearing Alice Cooper say more or less the same years ago on Planet Rock and I just can't hear the song the same anymore!

YESS that always wound me up about that James Blunt song, as if it wasn't crap enough already. I hate to compare it with the glorious Pulp but there's a similar thing that winds me up in "Common People":

I took her to a supermarket
I don't know why
But I had to start it somewhere
So it started there
I said pretend you've got no money
She just laughed and said
Oh you're so funny
I said; yeah
I can't see anyone else smiling in here
Are you sure?

Ok so it started there did it Jarvis? But then literally nothing else happens after this little chat at the supermarket in the story of the song. No more action. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.

(In "Last Christmas" though I thought it was supposed to be sarcastic with the implication that she is so shallow/meets so many men that she could hardly remember their names/faces even after only a year)

Re: Jailbreak - my village has a lock-up just outside the kids’ play park; they used to put the village drunkards in there overnight. Apparently if you pay the parish council a fiver they’ll lock you in there for the night - just for, you know, fun. I’m now imagining Phil Lynott outside it with his guitar warning about potential escapes…

I mentioned this on another thread recently but in House on Fire by Mimi Webb she sings

”I’ve got my story straight down to a T:
I’ll say ‘it wasn’t me’”

Criminal mastermind there!

Promises me we're as safe as houses,
As long as I remember who's wearing the trousers.
I LOVE Depeche Mode but this line from 'Never let me down again' makes me cringe!

@WitcheryDivine in Common People I've always presumed he took her to the supermarket. I think when he listened to her chat there in sober daylight (as opposed to the presumably student bar they met in) he realised how shallow and out of touch she was "cos everybody hates a tourist, especially one that thinks it's all such a laugh..."
And that's why there's no further action, cos she's a cow 🐮
The James Blunt song though, aye shite.

I think it's cool in a different context though, like if you play it cool you're being aloof and distant. In that case obeying imagined rules of courtship.

It's a shit line though.

Exactly this. Annoyed me for years!

@ZebraDanios Are you near Nottingham?

Alanis 'updated' the song with James Corden on his show - still not certain the modern things are necessarily 'ironic', mind.

There was also a time when she used to sing "It's like meeting the man of my dreams, and then meeting his beautiful... husband!"

Never liked that line either - it implies if the man's wife was unattractive then she has the green light to shag him.

@KateMiddletonsExtensions No - do you have one too?!

Yes! It's historic but still gets a lot of interest.

Never liked that line either - it implies if the man's wife was unattractive then she has the green light to shag him.

The Alanis one? I always assumed the relevant bit was the fact that he already had a wife - with the 'beautiful' bit just added as a bit of adjectival padding; but I kind of see your point.

On that Fergie song: "If you ain't got no money take your broke ass home!". Not very nice really.

Conversely, that Cheap Thrills by SIA. "I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight". Suggests she's one of those people who go to the pub or nightclub and get other people to buy their drinks